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Lesson Plan
Big Idea(s): Healthy and unhealthy foods will be identified and analyzed, create a
healthy meal plan, and identify how healthy vs unhealthy foods can make you feel.
1. Briefly describe the students in your class, including those with special
needs. Explain how you will meet the needs of ALL learners
(Differentiated Instruction).
This is a second-grade class with 8 boys and 15 girls. Three students
have a visual impairment, and they have a Chromebook that is synced
with the smartboard, so they are able to see what is on the board up
close. There are also two students with IEPs and both receive extra
support. In order to meet the needs of all my students, I make
adaptations to any worksheets we may use as well as allowing students
to show what they know by illustrating instead of writing if that
works better for them.
2. List the specific standard and expectations as outlined in the PA
Core/Academic Standards (SAS).
10- Health, Wellness, and Physical Development
10.1- Concepts of Health
10.1 2- 2nd Grade
C- Nutrition
10.1 2.C- Identify foods and the roles they have in keeping our bodies
healthy.
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10- Health, Wellness, and Physical Development
10.4- Physical Activity- Gross Motor Coordination
10.4 2- 2nd Grade
B- Balance and Strength
10.4 2.B- Exhibit balance, strength, stamina, and agility.
5. Identify what you will do to set clear standards of conduct and behavior
management of student behavior.
I will set clear standards of conduct and behavior by going over a
classroom list in the beginning of the year. This list will be posted in
the room as well as giving students their own copy to refer to. There
will also be a color-coded behavior chart in the front of the room.
Each student’s name will be on a clothes pin that will be moved as
needed. The behavior range is awesome in purple for those being very
on task and cooperative, ready to learn as a neutral in green, warning
in yellow so students know when they should make better choices, and
oh no in orange for when students have continued to make bad
choices. I like this system because students have a chance to redeem
themselves and always know where they stand.
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6. Identify what you will do to establish expectations for student
achievement.
I will establish expectations for student achievement by
demonstrating what we will be doing that day which is learning about
healthy and unhealthy foods, as well as creating a personal MyPlate
plan. I will make my own sample and tell students that this is what I
did for mine but that they are able to choose what foods they want to
include in theirs. This is where they will be able to show me their
understanding of healthy and unhealthy foods and how they are
different. I will also be walking round while students are working and
available if they ask for help or some ideas.
III. INSTRUCTION:
7. Motivation Activities/Strategies:
How will you generate interest or focus your lesson for the students?
To generate interest, I will ask students about their favorite foods and
ask them why they are their favorite.
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I will explain that healthy foods are foods that provide
nutrients to out bodies. Healthy foods are fruits, vegetables,
whole grains, lean meat, and low fat dairy.
Nutrients are substances in food that help us grow and become
stronger. Examples of nutrients found in healthy foods are
vitamins and minerals.
Unhealthy foods do not provide our bodies with lots of
nutrients, but instead have a lot of added sugar, unhealthy fats,
perservtaives, and sodium. Many unhealthy foods are
processed.
Perservatives are checmials that are put into different foods to
make them last a long time.
Processed foods are when foods may conatin some healthy
ingredients but have had a lot of sugar, salt, and unhealthy fats
added to them.
Sodium is another word for salt.
Now, not all fats are unhealthy. Fats from foods like avacados
and nuts are healthy fats.
Now we will go over MyPlate, which is a healthy eating guide
split into 5 different categories. Those categories are grains,
dairy, protein, fruits, and vegetables.
In the grains categeory, at least half of our grains should be
whole grains
Our proteins should be a variety of beans, lean meat, seafood,
poultry, eggs and peas.
The milk category should contain low fat dairy products such
as skim or 1% milk and low fat yogurt.
Fruits and vegetables should take up half of our plates and
include a variety of colors. They can be frozen, fresh, canned
or dried. Fruits and vegetables can be eaten as snacks in
addition to eating them at meal time.
Once both healthy and unhealthy foods are gone over and
what MyPlate is, I will ask students how they are feeling about
what we learned and they will respond with a number 1 if they
feel good about it, number 2 if they are confused about
something or need more explained, and 3 if they need more
help because they do not understand it.
I will work separately with students who responed with a 2 or
3 to ensure they have a better understanding of these types of
foods.
An activity we are going to do once we have learned healthy
and unhealthy foods is decide if a food is healthy or unhealthy.
I will show images of different foods to the class and have them
vote if the item is healthy or unhealthy.
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If there are mixed feeling on an item, I will explain why it is
healthy or unhealthy so students have a clearer understanding
as to why it is or isn’t.
Once we have decided if it is healthy or unhealthy, students
will act out how they think the food would make them feel.
We will do this for each image shown.
After we finish our voting and acting out, we will create our
own personal MyPlate plans.
This is when I will hand out the materials, such a pencils,
colored pencils, crayons, markers, and the MyPlate worksheet.
We will be writing a list of foods we are including and draw the
foods onto out plate.
I will show students my example where I show students my list
of foods and the foods I drew on my plate which they will also
be doing.
Once students have finished their personal plate, they will raise
their hand and I will come collect it to hang up in the
classroom.
11. What will you do to bring closure to the lesson? How will you summarize
this lesson and preview the lesson that will follow?
I will summarize the lesson by asking students to list 2 healthy foods
and 2 unhealthy foods they learned about today. To preview the next
lesson, I will tell students that tomorrow we will be learning about
even more foods when we read the book “Let’s Make a Food
Pyramid” by Baby Professor.
Resources-
MyPlate worksheet- Create Your Own MyPlate Menu (azureedge.net)